This New York Times article is quite intriguing: Caring, Romantic American Boys Well, it’s not about psychology, but more of a sociology-related discussion. Here’s the first part, the main point at the same time, of the whole article

"WHY are boys behaving more ‘like girls’ in terms of when they lose their virginity? In contrast to longstanding cultural tropes, there is reason to believe that teenage boys are becoming more careful and more romantic about their first sexual experiences.”

The statement is NOT counterintuitive to me. I mean, I have a gut feeling that young boys in the late teens today are getting less and less sexually active. Whether this observation may be true or not, there must be millions of ways to see the issue. Some may blame the whole internet culture, some may blame the empowered females during the last few decades, or some may blame the too advanced or matured society. When I think of this tendency, which I think exists, that young lads are becoming too careful or romantic in their first sexual experience or losing their interest in actual, not virtual, sexual intercourse with women, I cannot help recalling the my college days. Oh, well, I wasn’t going to talk about how sexually active I was back in those days. Honestly I wish I could’ve been, but I wasn’t. I was going to talk about the young boys, my two older brothers included, Toaround me. To my eyes, seniors, juniors, classmates were all curious, interested, and even desperate about girls. It may be not that I was too self-conscious or twisted back then. Those boys around me were always busy picking up pretty girls they could possibly access. I cannot help wonder what would be left for young boys today if they were not interested in having relationships with girls. Well, it makes me sound like a meddling, insensitive aunt, so I’ll shut my mouth now.